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Persoonlijke gegevens Johann George von SAXONY II 

• Hij is geboren op 31 mei 1613 in Dresden, Stadt Dresden, Sachsen, Germany.
• Titel: Elector of Saxony
• (Ancestry) : House of Wettin.
• Hij is overleden op 22 augustus 1680 in Tübingen, Tubingen, Baden-Württemberg, Germany, hij was toen 67 jaar oud.
• Hij is begraven in het jaar 1680 in Freiberg Cathedral, Freiberg, Sachsen, Germany.
• Een kind van Johann George von SAXONY en Magdalene Sibylle von PREUSSEN

Gezin van Johann George von SAXONY II

Hij is getrouwd met Magdalene Sibylle von BRANDENBURG-BAYREUTH.

Zij zijn getrouwd op 13 november 1638, hij was toen 25 jaar oud.

Kind(eren):

1. Erdmuthe Sophie von SAXONY  1644-1670
2. Johan George von SAXONY  1647-1691 

• Het echtpaar heeft gemeenschappelijke voorouders.



Notities over Johann George von SAXONY II

Johann George II (31 May 1613 - 22 August 1680) was the Elector of Saxony from 1656 to 1680. He belonged to the Albertine line of the House of Wettin.

He was the third (fourth in order of birth) but eldest surviving son of the Elector Johann George I, Elector of Saxony and Magdalene Sybille of Prussia, his second spouse. He succeeded his father as Elector of Saxony when John George I died on 8 October 1656.

In 1657 John George made an arrangement with his three brothers with the object of preventing disputes over their separate territories, and in 1664 he entered into friendly relations with Louis XIV. He received money from the French king, but the existence of a strong anti-French party in Saxony induced him occasionally to respond to the overtures of the emperor Leopold I.

The elector's primary interests were not in politics, but in music and art. He adorned Dresden, which under him became the musical centre of Germany; welcoming foreign musicians and others he gathered around him a large and splendid court, and his capital was the constant scene of musical and other festivals. He commissioned the building of the first opera house, the Opernhaus am Taschenberg.

In 1658 John George was accepted into the Fruitbearing Society, through the patronage of Duke William of Saxe-Weimar.

His enormous expenditure on the arts compelled John George in 1661 to grant greater control over monetary matters to the estates, a step which laid the foundation of the later system of finance in Saxony. Also, his government was less effective in establishing absolutist rule and a standing army than were Bohemia or Prussia.

John George's reign saw the slow economic reconstruction of Saxony after the Thirty Years' War. New trades and manufactures developed, such as textiles, hard coal and glass. Locally mined silver filled the Electorate's empty treasury, and the Leipzig Trade Fair and the Bohemian Exulanten of 1654 also stimulated economic activity.[citation needed]

John George died in Freiberg on 22 August 1680.

Family
In Dresden on 13 November 1638 John George married Magdalene Sibylle of Brandenburg-Bayreuth. They had three children:

Sibylle Marie (16 September 1642 - 27 February 1643)
Erdmuthe Sophie (25 February 1644 - 22 June 1670), married on 29 October 1662 to Christian Ernst, Margrave of Brandenburg-Bayreuth
John George III (20 June 1647 - 12 September 1691), his successor as Elector.
SOURCE: Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_George_II,_Elector_of_Saxony


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